ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,457, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Solid state nanopore formation" was invented by Ping Xie (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for producing a substrate comprising an aperture, which process comprises providing a substrate which comprises a solid-state membrane and a chemical surface modification on a first surface of the solid-state membrane; and forming an aperture through the chemical surface modification and the solid-state membrane. The invention also relates to a substrate comprising a chemical surface membrane ...